SHIFT_JIS_2004 is different to SJIS. But when I use SJIS, I occur the same problem, so I try SHIFT_JIS_2004. => set client_encoding='SJIS'; SET => select * from tablexx; ERROR: character 0xc2a0 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "SJIS" too confused... Thanks 2008/2/13, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > hi > > > > I used Postgresql7.4.3 with php for more than 3years. > > Now I want to change my database to Postgresql8.3. > > But I occur such problem > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > ERROR: character 0xe9ab99 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "SJIS" > > ERROR: character 0xe9ab99 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in > > "SHIFT_JIS_2004" > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > The database was encoded by UTF-8, > > to export data as .csv file, > > I use set client_encoding='SJIS' at client. > > When I use Postgresql7.4.3,no problem occur, > > but after I chaged to Postgresql8.3 ,the error was occured. > > > > Can I ignore the error message ? > > or any othe method to solve this problem. > > First of all, you should aware that SHIFT_JIS_2004 is a comppletely > different beast from SJIS. If you want to continue to use SJIS data in > 7.4, you must use SJIS, not SHIFT_JIS_2004 on 8.3. Or do you have any > particular reason to use SHIFT_JIS_2004? > > BTW, > > > ERROR: character 0xe9ab99 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "SJIS" > > I don't see this error message with PostgreSQL 8.3.0 running on a > Linux box. I can store UTF-8 0xe9ab99 (== U+9AD9) and retrieve it from > the SJIS client side (0xe9ab99 corresponds to 0xfbfc). Actually we can > confirm this by looking at line 6914 in > src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_sjis.map: > > {0xe9ab99, 0xfbfc}, > > Note that the left is the value for UTF-8, and the right side the > value for SJIS. I recommend you to double check your PostgreSQL 8.3 > installation. > > For your convenience, I have attatched a dump containing a table > (called "t1") which has the UTF-8 character in question. > > $ createdb -E UTF_8 test > $ gunzip -c /tmp/t1.dump.gz|psql test > $ psql -c "set client_encoding to SJIS;select * from t1" test > -- > Tatsuo Ishii > SRA OSS, Inc. Japan > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend